If you’re a ‘celebrity’ even a deadly virus is nothing at all:

Our daily update is published. States reported 1.9 million tests, 214k cases, and 3,067 deaths. There are 107k people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, a new all-time record. pic.twitter.com/ReYTBJoQgF

— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) December 11, 2020

Yesterday, the US set a record for single-day deaths from COVID-19 at 3,054, and then today broke it. And also today, CDC Director Robert Redfield said the dying will continue apparently unabated: ‘“We are in the timeframe now that probably for the next 60 to 90 days we’re going to have more deaths per day than we had at 9/11 or we had at Pearl Harbor.”‘
Shit-on-a-plague-stick.

Even with the news today the FDA granted emergency use authorization to Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine, the actual distribution to the mass of Americans is way down the line. Next, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will decide tomorrow, and in another meeting Sunday on whether the vaccine can be deployed for use.
Hence, comes the tricky part.

When you and I can be vaccinated depends on a shitload of factors, like where you live, what priority group you’re in (health care facility workers, including doctors, nurses, nursing home aides, cafeteria workers and janitorial staff will reportedly get it first, then others). and from past indications, the roll-out will be a logistics nightmare — T-Rump’s Operation Warp Speed will handle distribution, which to be expected will be a fuck-up at the get-go.
The mass of Americans under this umbrella: ‘In a best-case scenario, the federal government says, it may be possible for vaccines to be widely available by spring of 2021.‘

Long time coming under lockdown.

A huge moral custerfuck is the elite have access to a near-miracle cure. Along with the T-Rump, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, among others, have received an antibody treatment in such short supply that some hospitals and states are doling it out by lottery.
The treatment is a monoclonal antibody developed by Eli Lilly, a reported cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies developed by Regeneron and available doses are way-ridiculously low — as COVID-19 is killing one-to-two Americans every minute, the feds have purchased 1.2 million doses, though, only 157,000 have been delivered.
A fart in the wind.

The latest asshole on the COVID ‘cocktail’ circuit is Rudy Giuliani, who T-Rump had tweeted on Sunday had tested positive for COVID, and after three days, left the hospital yesterday:

WATCH: Rudy Giuliani gives a thumbs up as he leaves MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. pic.twitter.com/JgVNqvUzkn

— The Hill (@thehill) December 9, 2020

A wonder when ICU beds are scarce, victims suffer for months, and hundreds of thousands die.
From the New York Times yesterday:

Now Rudolph W. Giuliani, the latest member of President Trump’s inner circle to contract Covid-19, has acknowledged that he received at least two of the same drugs the president received.
He even conceded that his “celebrity” status had given him access to care that others did not have.

“If it wasn’t me, I wouldn’t have been put in a hospital frankly,” Mr. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, told WABC radio in New York.
“Sometimes when you’re a celebrity, they’re worried if something happens to you they’re going to examine it more carefully, and do everything right.”

Mr. Giuliani’s candid admission once again exposes that Covid-19 has become a disease of the haves and the have-nots.
The treatment given to Mr. Trump’s allies is raising alarms among medical ethicists as state officials and health system administrators grapple with gut-wrenching decisions about which patients get antibodies in a system that can only be described as rationing.

And Rudy being a shithead: ‘Mr. Giuliani, 76, appeared unaware of the scarcity issues, telling interviewers that politicians have taken masks and business closures too far now that Covid-19 is “a treatable disease.”‘

The stench and nasty foulness of the T-Rump White House will undergo a strict, hard-ass cleaning to rid the virus from the compound before Joe Biden takes office Jan. 20 — a rathole of infestations.
Via Politico yesterday:

Because the coronavirus can linger on surfaces for multiple days, a team deployed by the General Services Administration will go over every part of the White House’s East and West Wings touched by human hands in the hours after Trump departs and Biden moves in, a spokesperson from the agency confirmed to POLITICO.
That includes plans to “thoroughly clean and disinfect” all furniture, doorknobs, handrails and light switches, before Biden and his team move in.
Additionally, a private contractor will provide “disinfectant misting services” to clear the air of lingering droplets.

Still other changes aimed at keeping Biden and his team safe will be more cultural than logistical.

“It’ll be the polar opposite of what you’re seeing now,” said Nicole Lurie, a former HHS assistant secretary of emergency and preparedness under the Obama administration who has advised Biden’s Covid-19 response.
“I think the social penalties for non-mask wearing will be great. Instead of people being ridiculed for wearing masks, they’ll be pressured in the other direction. It’ll be hard to be in a meeting and not wear a mask or social distance.”

That day can’t come fast enough…

(Illustration: cover, Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery,’ found here).